Damage
['dæmɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of damaging something or someone.
(noun.) loss of military equipment.
(noun.) the occurrence of a change for the worse.
(verb.) inflict damage upon; 'The snow damaged the roof'; 'She damaged the car when she hit the tree'.
(verb.) suffer or be susceptible to damage; 'These fine china cups damage easily'.
Edited by Ellis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
(n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
(n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
(v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
Checked by Barry
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Injury, harm, hurt, detriment, mischief, loss.
v. a. Injure, impair, hurt, harm, mar.
Edited by Jason
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Injury, hurt, loss, mischief, detriment, impairment
ANT:Compensation, recovery, reinstatement, advantage, benefit, reparation,blessing, Damnable,[See EXECRABLE]
Typed by Juan
Definition
n. hurt injury loss: the value of what is lost: (coll.) cost: (pl.) the pecuniary reparation due for loss or injury sustained by one person through the fault or negligence of another.—v.t. to harm.—v.i. to take injury.—adj. Dam′ageable.
Editor: Olivia
Examples
- The gunboats, however, ploughed their way through without other damage than to their appearance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Morgan Was foot-loose and could operate where, his information--always correct--led him to believe he could do the greatest damage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But, like ourselves, the rebels had become experts in repairing such damage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The skin, however, peeled off, and new skin replaced it without any damage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Though the dogs might damage the gal, if they come on her unawars, said Haley. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We had to hurry to the rescue and tell him it was only necessary to damage them a little, he need not kill them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By this means, when an explosion does occur, much less damage is done, for the lighter part only is blown away, which does little injury. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Defamation of character: action for damages. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Only you must be responsible for damages. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It's a breakdown blow, and it damages Lydgate as much as Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the end, however, the complainant had nothing to show for all his struggle, as the master who made the accounting set the damages at one dollar! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I refuse to pay some damages, and am here in consequence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And that the damages are actually laid at fifteen hundred pounds? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Damages, gentlemen--heavy damages is the only punishment with which you can visit him; the only recompense you can award to my client. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had not known how hurt he was, how his tissue, the very tissue of his brain was damaged by the corrosive flood of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Now, said the woman, when she had raised his head on a roll of damaged cotton, which served for a pillow, there's the best I can do for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It may also be used for transporting troops past danger points, and for transporting explosives or other perishable material which might be damaged by fire from the ends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am afraid it will be horribly damaged on the transit, replied the Demarch, smiling. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- On this day Wilson returned from his raid upon the Virginia Central Railroad, having damaged it considerably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That's abominable of you, Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument. Plato. The Republic.
- He made a damaging effect, and has great influence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Further, he often sees damaging letters produced in evidence and has occasion to reflect that it was a green thing to write them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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